Sunday, April 17, 2011

peace and happiness

Practiced the piano for an hour in the morning then prepared for the funeral, what to wear (black one-piece or suits is common here), what to bring (we usually offer condolence money for a funeral).

The funeral was so peaceful. There were so many people gathering to send her to the heaven. We saw 5-6 members of our senior choir. We had a good time there.

After coming home, I practiced the piano one more hour then headed to Kobe to bring some wedding things to our friend, Saori.  She has been our friend for nearly twenty years. We met her at an off-line meeting of a classic music circle on the personal computer communication by Nifty-Serve. At that time the Internet was not available. We used a modem and a phone line to get to the PC communication network, no picture or video but only text communication was available there. We met many music-lovers on the net and became good friends. Saori is one of the best friends we met there.

She is getting married next month! We feel so happy for her that she found her best partner eventually!

She wants to wear  "something four" in her wedding:
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue.

She asked us for the "something borrowed" part because, she said, she wanted to be like us, as a good couple! So we brought my wedding bouquet to lend it to her.  We had dinner together as we watched Tigers' baseball game, of course (she is also a big fan of Tigers!). 

Her wedding ceremony is just in almost three weeks. We really look forward to seeing her in the beautiful white dress!!! Cannot wait!

Tomorrow will be a memorable day.  Baseball watching with our long-time friend. Should be great fun!

Good night from Osaka, Japan!

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